December “Pencil Test” Animation Contest!!

December “Pencil Test” Animation Contest

Here’s your chance to win a bunch of Animation GOODIES!! We have been wanting to start some contests to get more of you out there animating! What better way than a contest! All entries must be submitted by Dec 31st, 2016.

2nd Place Prize

Rules

1. Find a fun, goofy, GIF from giphy.com or tumblr.com
2. Use that GIF as reference and animate it. (You can use ANY character you like, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, Batman, etc or one you created)
3. You must show which GIF you used as reference.
4. It must be done in 2d. (Traditional Pencil paper, Flash, ToonBoom, TvPaint, Full Color, B&W, Limited Animation, etc)
5. All Entries Must be Uploaded in the Traditional Animation Facebook Group (Not shared) Use hashtag #DecemberContest
6. Deadline December 31st, 2016
7. You can enter up to 3 entries.

Example of an Entry

Judges

Each entry will be judged by the animators creativity, weight, clarity and entertainment value.

Gary Goldman

Gary Goldman is an animator/director/producer/writer. He began his career at Walt Disney Productions in 1972. His film credits include Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, The Rescuers, Pete’s Dragon,The Small One and The Fox and the Hound (uncredited). Xanadu, The Secret of N.I.M.H., Arcade games Dragon’s Lair I & II and Space Ace, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Thumbelina, Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent and Titan A.E. Gary was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1978.

Dominic Carolla

Dominic Carola is an animator and owner of Premise Entertainment. Recruited out of Cal Arts by Walt Disney Feature Animation, he began his career animating on several features, shorts and directing theme park attractions. As a partner studio for such clients as Universal, Dreamworks and Disney, he continues as Creative Director and Head of Production for the last dozen years on numerous features, shorts and commercial projects. Some projects include The Lion King, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, Curious George, Princess and the Frog and co-supervising the animation for the award-winning The Bear and The Hare.

Lavalle Lee

Lavalle Lee is the Project Leader for Don Bluth Films. Lavalle is the producer/director/editor & host of the The Traditional Animation Show and the founder of TraditionalAnimation.com, the largest website dedicated to hand-drawn animation. In 2000, he began animating online short cartoon webisodes for his website FLASHCARTOONS.ORG. He has been a member of Don Bluth’s animation classes, workshops and master classes since 2009.

The Author

Lavalle Lee

Lavalle has been making animated online cartoons since 2001 for his website flashcartoons.org. In 2009 Lavalle started learning from Don Bluth in his hand-drawn animation classes, as well as attending his Masterclasses in Arizona. In 2011 he started this website after seeing most animation sites were about all types of animation, not any specific to classical hand drawn animation. Lavalle also is the host of the popular online series. "The Traditional Animation Show". Lavalle is currently working for Don Bluth Films as a Production Manager and helped champion Dragon's Lair: The Movie Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign.